How do I make the hostname discoverable?

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How do I make the hostname discoverable?

Post by bjrosen » 2019/02/14 03:20:36

When I look at the network map on my router I notice than my Fedora 29 systems, Win10, Phone, IoT devices all appear by name but all of my CentOS7 machines appear by IP address only. How do I make the CentOS7 system's hostnames discoverable?

BTW it's my routers that don't see the hostnames, nmap sees them fine.

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Re: How do I make the hostname discoverable?

Post by bjrosen » 2019/02/14 03:42:19

Never mind. It's SAMBA that makes the difference. The Fedora boxes had SAMBA on them, the CentOS7 boxes didn't. When I installed SAMBA the hostname showed up in the router's network map.

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